Ivan Orkin

My friend Edward told me about an episode of Chef’s Table on Netflix about Ivan Orkin, a ramen cook with a fascinating life story. The food aspect of the documentary is great but his story is even better. Nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn becomes most famous ramen chef in Tokyo, Japan by putting a little schmaltz (Yiddish: chicken fat) in his traditional Japanese cookery. Brilliant.

About Richard

I’ve been publishing online in one form or another since the early days of the web. I started this site in 2003 with a self-hosted install of WordPress and more recently migrated most of the old content here.

This site primarily features photography but I’m interested in many things and you’ll see an occasional video embed or story here as well.

I use Flickr to host my photography, some of which is embedded here. I also embed other Flickr members’ work as I find and want to share it further than Flickr.